"@mattsarz" Target="_BLANK">size="2">"@mattsarz: ESPNEWS added some CFB games: VU-BC (8/31, 12pm), ODU-MD (9/7, 4pm), Marshall-Ohio (9/14, 8pm), B-C at NC Central (11/2, 12pm)"

Nice!

I'm familiar with ESPN News but don't recall it ever being used for live game broadcasts. Is this a new option for ESPN?

I guess we now have an answer to "why is it 8pm for a web stream?"

Scheduling stuff on News is new, yes. There were a couple NASCAR events scheduled on it this year, too, when there were conflicts on 1 and 2. Interesting thing about this is that News has been the overflow any time a game went long, and depending on how heavily the network is scheduled with live events. Maybe the thinking is WatchESPN/ESPN3 penetration is high enough that it is good enough for overflow now?

News is in a similar number of homes as U, maybe fewer people know what channel it is... Maybe this helps that? Live events are the lifeblood of sports TV, the more the better in my opinion.


(My thoughts, not my employer's, etc.)

No, they've used it for spare live broadcasts for years. They broadcast international soccer matches on there quite a bit, actually.